Scaling study of the pion electroproduction cross sections and the pion form factor
Jul, 2007
6 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.C 78 (2008) 058201
e-Print:
- 0707.1794 [nucl-ex]
Report number:
- JLAB-PHY-07-679
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The H()n cross section was measured for a range of four-momentum transfer up to =3.91 GeV at values of the invariant mass, , above the resonance region. The -dependence of the longitudinal component is consistent with the -scaling prediction for hard exclusive processes. This suggests that perturbative QCD concepts are applicable at rather low values of . Pion form factor results, while consistent with the -scaling prediction, are inconsistent in magnitude with perturbative QCD calculations. The extraction of Generalized Parton Distributions from hard exclusive processes assumes the dominance of the longitudinal term. However, transverse contributions to the cross section are still significant at =3.91 GeV.- electron p: exclusive reaction
- pi+: electroproduction
- differential cross section: momentum transfer dependence
- scaling
- quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
- cross section: factorization
- pi: form factor
- cross section: longitudinal
- cross section: transverse
- field theory: conformal
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